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StartUP FIU: sparking creativity, ingenuity, and technology
transfer among faculty, students and entrepreneurs
February 2016 Issue
FIU’s Innovation and Economic Develop-ment (IED) unit within the Office of Re-search and Economic Development (ORED) recently reached an agreement with Miami MedTech (MMT) to bring them to FIU’s Modesto Maidique Campus (MMC). The first external startup company to co-locate at FIU, MMT is an innovation center for the medical device industry, providing leadership and re-sources to translate ideas about medical needs into commercially viable solutions. Located in the OE building, MMT employees plan to work closely with FIU faculty and students to develop its company. These types of partnerships mark an excit-ing new role for FIU in Miami’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem as plans are well underway to launch StartUP FIU—a University-wide effort to stimulate and sup-port collaboration among faculty, students and entrepreneurs towards the creation and development of local high impact companies. The FIU-MMT agreement is the beginning of an initiative to overcome a regional hurdle—the lack of comprehensive support to foster healthcare innovation through private/academic partnerships. The goal is to create the ideal incubator-type ecosystem in South Florida for inventive and entrepreneurial sci-entists, researchers and medical professionals to realize the commercial potential of their medical device ideas. The FIU-MMT collaboration presents a great opportunity for economic development in Miami. The medical devices industry repre-sents a $500B market in which 80 percent of inventions originate from users. Founded by two entrepreneurs with vast experience in medical innovation, Dr. Pedro Martínez Clark, a board-certified interventional cardiol-ogist, and Mr. Max Méndez, a medical device developer and former FIU student in me-chanical engineering, MMT is currently devel-oping a product that will provide 150,000 otherwise ineligible patients with access to a cardiovascular treatment device that is far less invasive than conventional approaches. MMT is also working with other local and interna-tional innovators, leveraging its unique clinical network in Latin America, to identify a strong portfolio of projects and products with tre-mendous potential to impact global healthcare.
MMT is just the first of what is expected to be many innovation opportunities available to early stage startups, FIU students and faculty under the auspices of StartUP FIU. Through StartUP FIU, the University is creating the infrastructure to coordinate ongoing efforts to advance its innovative technologies, launch companies and generate jobs for our community. To be located in an 8,000 sf incubator on the third floor of the MARC building, StartUP FIU will deliver signa-ture programming, such as its 13-week program for teams of entrepreneurs that culminates in pitching to real investors, to support the for-mation of new technology companies. Compa-nies co-locating at FIU will have access to FIU’s facilities and resources, experts and entrepre-neurs in residence, and collaboration with inno-vative and entrepreneurial faculty and students. Partnering with existing University resources such as the College of Business’s Small Business Development Center, CARTA’s Miami Beach Urban Studios, SCIS’s TechStation, ORED’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization unit, the College of Law’s Small Business Clinic, the Honors College, and the College of Engi-neering and Computing, StartUP FIU will be a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs interested in starting their own businesses. In another exciting development for the IED unit, Dr. Shekhar Bhansali, Dr. Yogeswaran Umasankar, and Mr. Peter Hernández recently received an Innovation Corps (I-Corps) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with support from FIU’s Technology Manage-ment and Commercialization unit. Dr. Bhansali, chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing Department, will be the Principal Investiga-tor (the second time that he has served in this capacity on a NSF I-Corps); Dr. Umasankar, a postdoctoral associate, will be the Entrepreneur-ial Lead for the team; and Mr. Hernández, Di-rector of FIU’s Technology Management and Commercialization unit, will be the team’s men-tor. The team will be exploring the commercial feasibility of a device developed by Dr. Umasankar, a wearable transdermal alcohol sen-sor capable of continually monitoring the blood alcohol content of its wearer. The activities that this I-Corps team will focus on include de-velopment of a working prototype, determina-tion of potential customer needs and require-ments, and preparation to launch a company.
Awards Received in December 2015
(page 2)
Upcoming Events (page 2)
Funding Opportunities
(Excel file attached)
Contact Us (page 9)
ORED Communicator
February 2016 ORED Communicator Page 2
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
Upcoming Events February 2016
February 3, 10 am to 12 noon, MARC Pavilion, Global Energy Outlook to 2040, RSVP required
February 3, 11 am to 5:30 pm, CBC Special Events Center, SLSC All-Hands Meeting—RSVP required
February 3, 12 to 1:30 pm, Faculty Club, Faculty Mentor Program Lunch Gathering—RSVP for 2/3Mentor
Lunch
February 4, 12 to 1:30 pm, Faculty Club, Faculty Mentor Program Lunch Gathering—RSVP for 2/4 Mentor
Lunch
February 5, 9 to 10 am, Engineering Campus (EC) #2300, Improvements in Ocular Blood Flow and Vision
following Electro-Stimulation Therapies for Retinal Disease, presented by Ava Bittner
February 5, 3 to 4 pm, EC #2300, Insights into the Culture of the Department of Defense and its Impact on
Applied Research Requirements, presented by Joseph Sinicrope
February 11, 8:30 am to 5 pm, EC #2300, 2016 Workshop of Origami Design for Integration of Self-
Assembling Systems for Engineering Innovation, organized by Stavros Georgakopoulus
February 12, 8:30 to 11:30 am, MARC Pavilion, 2016 Workshop of Origami Design for Integration of Self-
Assembling Systems for Engineering Innovation, organized by Stavros Georgakopoulus
February 12, 9 to 10 am, EC #2300, Neuronal Injury, Plasticity and Respiratory Rehabilitation, presented by
David Fuller
February 19, 8:30 am to 2:30 pm, EC #2300, 6th Annual Undergraduate Research Day
February 22, 9 am to 12 noon, WC 130, NIH Funding Programs and Resources Seminar for Academic
Innovators and Entrepreneurs, RSVP required.
March 2016
March 1 & 2, 8 am to 5 pm, MARC Pavilion, 6th International Conference on Global Health. RSVP required.
March 3 & 4, 8 am to 6 pm, MARC Pavilion, 18th Annual Biomedical and Comparative Immunology
Symposium
March 4, 9 to 10 am, EC 2300, Heart Valve Development and Disease Mechanisms, presented by Katherine
Yutzey
March 11, 9 to 10 am, EC 2300, 3D Data, presented by Amir Shmuel
March 11, 2 to 3 pm, ECS 241, Understanding, Designing and Developing Natural User Interactions for
Children, presented by Lisa Anthony.
March 18, 2 to 3 pm, ECS 241, Using Process Modeling and Analysis Techniques to Reduce Errors in
Healthcare, presented by Lori A. Clarke.
March 25, 9 to 10 am, EC 2300, The Light Works: Non-invasive 3D Optical Imaging of Tissue Morphology
and Microcirculations in Vivo, presented by Ruikang (Ricky) Wang
March 25, 2 to 3 pm, ECS 241, SCIS Distinguished Women Lecture Series, presented by Tracy Camp.
Awards Received—December 2015 FIU researchers were awarded $10,413,487 in December 2015. Below is a listing of awards received.
PI: Malek Adjouadi
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: MRI: Development of an Integrated Neuroimaging Instrument AWARD: $ 3,755,112
PI: Marisela Agudelo
COM IMMUNOLOGY
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: EtOH-induced Immunomodulation: Role of Histone Deacetylases AWARD: $ 25,257
Page 3 ORED Communicator February 2016
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Benjamin C Amick Iii
HEALTH POLICY AND MGMT
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Univ of Texas Health Science Ctr Houston
TITLE: Service Agreement - New Year New You AWARD: $ 22,669
PI: Joann Arnowitz
JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs
TITLE: FY 2015-2016 (MCI) Grants Program AWARD: $ 161,386
PI: Shekhar Bhansali
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: North Carolina State University
TITLE: Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensor Technologies AWARD: $ 145,817
PI: Shekhar Bhansali
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: North Carolina State University
TITLE: Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensor Technologies AWARD: $ 34,108
PI: Eric Bishop-Von Wettberg
BIOLOGY
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of California Davis
TITLE: Deducing the genomic footprint and functional impact of chickpea AWARD: $ 214,548
PI: Kevin Mershon Boswell
INST OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENT
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: Industrial Economics Inc
TITLE: Analysis of acoustic data from Deep Water Horizon AWARD: $ 11,878
PI: Lakhdar Boukerrou
INST OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENT
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: US Agency for International Development
TITLE: West Africa Water Supply AWARD: $ 513,775
PI: Henry Briceno
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Islamorada, Village of Islands
TITLE: Water Quality Monitoring Program for the Village of Islamorada AWARD: $ 72,443
PI: Shu-Ching Chen
INTERNATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
TITLE: FPHL Model Operation and Maintenance, and Model Upgrades AWARD: $ 3,811
February 2016 ORED Communicator Page 4
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Erika K Coles
CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAM
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Nova Southeastern University
TITLE: Behavior Assessment Team AWARD: $ 6,600
PI: Jose Miguel Cruz
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIB CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Open Society Foundations
TITLE: Systematization of the Community-Based Police in El Salvador AWARD: $ 67,329
PI: Ronald Philip Fisher
PSYCHOLOGY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Federal Bureau of Investigation
TITLE: Interviewing information sources twice with the Cognitive Interview AWARD: $ 187,883
PI: James Fourqurean
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Islamorada, Village of Islands
TITLE: Baseline Monitoring of Canals in the Village of Islamorada AWARD: $ 17,454
PI: Arindam Gan Chowdhury
INTERNATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Division of Emergency Management
TITLE: FIU's Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida AWARD: $ 282,389
PI: Orlando J Garcia
MUSIC
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Earle Brown Music Foundation
TITLE: New Music Miami Brown Feldman Concert AWARD: $ 3,000
PI: Ismail Guvenc
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: DOCOMO Innovations Inc
TITLE: Compressive Sensing for Improving Accuracy of Fingerprint AWARD: $ 25,000
PI: Mohammed A Hadi
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of Florida
TITLE: STRIDE Internal Steering Committee AWARD: $ 997
PI: Mohammed A Hadi
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of Florida
TITLE: STRIDE Internal Steering Committee AWARD: $ 6,999
Page 5 ORED Communicator February 2016
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Julio E Ibarra
CIARA
Award Action Type: Continuation
AWARDING SPONSOR: Assoc of Univs for Rsrch in Astronomy
TITLE: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) AWARD: $ 1,525,001
PI: Julio E Ibarra
CIARA
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: Campus Cyber Infrastructure- CC*DNI AWARD: $ 200,787
PI: Maria Ilcheva
METROPOLITAN CENTER
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami-Dade County Transit
TITLE: Miami-Dade Transit Department: 2015 Employee Satisfaction Survey AWARD: $ 24,500
PI: Xia Jin
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Department of Transportation
TITLE: Incorporating Transit Service Decisions into Express Lane Programs AWARD: $ 159,720
PI: Jeremy Kiszka
BIOLOGY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Fondation D'Entreprise Total
TITLE: The behavioral ecology of green sea turtles in the French Antilles: AWARD: $ 138,660
PI: Chenzhong Li
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Northeastern University
TITLE: NRT-IGE: Nanomedicine Academy AWARD: $ 15,000
PI: Debra Lundy
SCH OF HOSP AND TOURISM MGMT
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs
TITLE: 2015-16 FEST South Beach Wine & Food Festival AWARD: $ 78,041
PI: Bruce Mc Cord
CHEMISTRY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: QIAGEN
TITLE: Internal Validation of QIAGEN's Investigator 24plex (6 dye) STR kit AWARD: $ 27,340
PI: April Ruth Merleaux
HISTORY
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Endowment for the Humanities
TITLE: Ecohumanities for Cities in Crisis AWARD: $ 162,242
February 2016 ORED Communicator Page 6
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Osama A Mohammed
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of Arkansas
TITLE: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Integratable, Composable AWARD: $ 289,970
PI: Francisco Mora
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIB CTR
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: Tinker Foundation Inc.
TITLE: Tinker Field Research Grant AWARD: $ 15,000
PI: Norman D Munroe
OSAS ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Children's Trust
TITLE: FIU -ENLACE 15-16 AWARD: $ 412,903
PI: Richard Olson
INTERNATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Division of Emergency Management
TITLE: FIU's Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida AWARD: $ 284,671
PI: Timothy F Page
HEALTH POLICY AND MGMT
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Meharry Medical College
TITLE: Development of an Online Certificate in Health Economics AWARD: $ 16,536
PI: Jordana Pomeroy
FROST ART MUSEUM
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
TITLE: General Support Program 2015-2016 AWARD: $ 67,258
PI: Allan Rosenbaum
INST PUB MGMT & COMM SERVICE
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs
TITLE: TDC XXII Inter-American Conference of Mayors and Local AWARD: $ 14,400
PI: Nicole Ruggiano
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Gerontological Society of America
TITLE: Expansion of Health Information Technology for Hispanic Dementia AWARD: $ 9,966
PI: Jay Sah
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: South Florida Water Management District
TITLE: Status of Vegetation Structure and Composition within the Habitat AWARD: $ 38,000
Page 7 ORED Communicator February 2016
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Arif Islam Sarwat
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: CAREER: Cyber Physical Solution for High Penetration Renewables AWARD: $ 82,837
PI: Althea M Silvera
LIBRARY OPERATIONS
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Center for Research Libraries
TITLE: Guantanamo Naval Base Newspapers Digitization Project AWARD: $ 5,000
PI: Jacqueline Bueno Sousa
COB DEANS OFFICE
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of West Florida
TITLE: FSBDC 2016 - YR 3 AWARD: $ 128,440
PI: Jacqueline Bueno Sousa
COB DEANS OFFICE
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of West Florida
TITLE: FSBDC 2016 - YR 3 AWARD: $ 9,329
PI: Jacqueline Bueno Sousa
COB DEANS OFFICE
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of West Florida
TITLE: FSBDC 2016 - YR 3 AWARD: $ 58,321
PI: Casey Steadman
THE WOLFSONIAN
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
TITLE: Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern AWARD: $ 25,000
PI: John Stuart
ARCHICT AND THE ARTS DEANS OFF
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: City of Miami Beach
TITLE: City of Miami Beach Junior Cultural Anchor Grant 2015-2016 AWARD: $ 24,364
PI: Michael C Sukop
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Colorado State University
TITLE: Urban Water Innovation Network (U-WIN): Transitioning AWARD: $ 71,181
PI: Berrin Tansel
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: U.S. Department of Transportation
TITLE: Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program AWARD: $ 2,000
February 2016 ORED Communicator Page 8
For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
PI: Berrin Tansel
CIVIL AND ENVIRON ENGINEERING
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: U.S. Department of Transportation
TITLE: Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program AWARD: $ 2,000
PI: Joel Trexler
SOUTHEAST ENV RESEARCH CTR
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: Springer
TITLE: Oecologia Editor-in-Chief AWARD: $ 100,836
PI: Diana Valle-Riestra
COE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of Central Florida
TITLE: Project Panther LIFE 2015-2020 Florida Consortium on Inclusive AWARD: $ 96,078
PI: Feion Villodas
CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAM
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Children's Trust
TITLE: After-school support program for youth at-risk for behavior problems AWARD: $ 158,133
PI: Chunlei Wang
ELEC AND COMPUTER ENG
Award Action Type: Supplemental
AWARDING SPONSOR: North Carolina State University
TITLE: Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensor Technologies AWARD: $ 72,000
PI: Yi Xiao
BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Colorimetric, Onsite AWARD: $ 295,546
PI: Yi Xiao
BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
TITLE: Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Colorimetric, Onsite AWARD: $ 41,694
PI: Ping Zhu
INTERNATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Award Action Type: Increase
AWARDING SPONSOR: University of Miami
TITLE: CARTHE II - Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport AWARD: $ 69,338
PI: Ioannis Zisis
INTERNATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Award Action Type: Initial
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Division of Emergency Management
TITLE: FIU's Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida AWARD: $ 132,941
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For updates, corrections, suggestions, and/or general comments, please email [email protected]
Funding Opportunities The funding opportunities are in a separate excel file, which includes a filter for agency, date and opportunity
number.
Contact ORED Senior Leadership Name Title Email Address
Andrés G. Gil Vice President for Research & Economic Development [email protected]
Tonja Moore Associate Vice President, Strategic Planning & Operations [email protected]
Luis P. Salas Associate Vice President, International Research, Space
Optimization and Compliance [email protected]
Mirtha Alberto Director, Budget & Cost Analysis [email protected]
Henry Artigues Director, External Partnerships & Economic Development [email protected]
David Driesbach Assistant Vice President, Research Information Systems [email protected]
Christopher Grayson Director, Research Integrity [email protected]
Emily Gresham Assistant Vice President, Innovation & Economic
Development [email protected]
Robert Gutierrez Assistant Vice President, Research Development & Pre-
Award [email protected]
Pedro Hernández Director, Technology Management & Commercialization [email protected]
Maureen Pelham Director, Research Development [email protected]
Aida Reus Director, Post-Award [email protected]
Horatiu Vinerean Director, Laboratory Animal Research; Attending
Veterinarian [email protected]
Susan Webster Director, Training & International Research Initiatives [email protected]
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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